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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from Lincoln Terrace on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument is in the foreground and... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | A posted sign reads: "George Washington Elms, From Mt. Vernon, VA to Mt. Vernon, WIS. Planted May 6th, 1916," at the Forest of Fame, consisting of trees gr... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showing the first three buildings on campus, South Hall (left), University Hall [Bascom Hall] (center), and North Ha... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Winter scene overlooking town, showing Baptist church in background. |
| Date: | February 20 1985 |
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| Description: | View looking downhill towards a young person walking across a road near snowy fields and hills in Vernon County. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background. |
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| Description: | Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | University Heights from the Chemistry Building on University Avenue. View includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison football field, on the former site o... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of... |
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